'Death and Nightingales is a miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned beauty with a plot that keeps you up all night wondering how it will end... a masterpiece' Colm T ibin
Eugene McCabe was born in Glasgow in 1930. His novel Death and Nightingales was published in 1992 to high praise. He has published five collections of short stories, one non-fiction book and a novella. He is also a successful playwright. Eugene McCabe lives in County Monaghan.
A deeply moving, powerful, and unforgettable book
*Michael Ondaatje*
A truly astonishing novel – it goes straight to the heart
*Hilary Mantel*
A miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned
beauty with a plot that keeps you up all night wondering how it
will end... Clearly one of the masterpieces of the century
*Colm Toibin*
A novel of breadth, power and passion… From its poisonous and
dramatic opening to its engrossing ending this novel will hold you
in thrall throughout
*Bernard MacLaverty*
I believe Death and Nightingales is the finest novel by the
greatest living Irish prose writer
*Alan Warner*
Crisp, taut and unsentimental...this tragic tale of gold,
prejudice, terrorism, emigration, love and oppression remains an
impressive and moving achievement
*Observer*
Death and Nightingales should put Eugene McCabe in the first rank
of contemporary Irish novelists
*John Banville*
A deeply moving, powerful, and unforgettable book -- Michael
Ondaatje
A truly astonishing novel - it goes straight to the heart * Hilary
Mantel *
A miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned
beauty with a plot that keeps you up all night wondering how it
will end... Clearly one of the masterpieces of the century -- Colm
Toibin
A novel of breadth, power and passion... From its poisonous and
dramatic opening to its engrossing ending this novel will hold you
in thrall throughout -- Bernard MacLaverty
I believe Death and Nightingales is the finest novel by the
greatest living Irish prose writer -- Alan Warner
Crisp, taut and unsentimental...this tragic tale of gold,
prejudice, terrorism, emigration, love and oppression remains an
impressive and moving achievement * Observer *
Death and Nightingales should put Eugene McCabe in the first
rank of contemporary Irish novelists -- John Banville
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